Section 66: Charge to environment protection fee
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
66. Charge to environment protection fee
(1) Subject to this section, there shall be levied on every designated establishment a fee to be known as the environment protection fee.
(2) The manager of every designated establishment specified in Column 1
of the Eighth Schedule shall, after the end of every month, pay to the DirectorGeneral on its monthly turnover in respect of that month, a fee at the corresponding rate specified in Column 2 of that Schedule within the period specified in Column 3 of that Schedule.
(3) Where a designated establishment ceases its activity, the fee calculated under subsection (2) shall be paid within 7 days of the date of the cessation of its activities.
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(4) Any manager who fails to pay the fee leviable under this Part shall
commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding
100,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years.
[S. 66 amended by s. 10 (b) of Act 14 of 2005 w.e.f. 21 April 2005; s. 12 (b) of Act 17 of
2007 w.e.f. 1 September 2007.]